Tyler Cowen
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Tyler Cowen is an American economist, author, and professor at George Mason University. He co-founded the economics blog Marginal Revolution and hosts the podcast Conversations with Tyler, and is known for writing on economics, technology, culture, and public policy.
11 episodes featuring Tyler Cowen
TBPN
OpenAI bets proactive agents will remake everyday computing
The episode captures a pivotal product shift as AI moves from answering prompts toward acting across software, devices, organizations, and creative work.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2h 6m
The Bulwark Daily
Economic strain meets AI’s control problem
The episode connects near-term policy risks—from inflation and census changes to recession—with harder questions about whether advanced AI can be governed safely.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 14m
Prof G on Relationships
AI tests whether effort still builds intelligence
The episode connects AI’s educational promise to the risks of weakened learning, damaged trade relationships, neglected marriages, and collective memory.
Sep 11, 2026 · 23 min
TBPN
AI risk meets robot arms, agent investing and chip competition
The episode connects abstract arguments about AI safety to hands-on robotics, emerging agent businesses and the hardware race challenging NVIDIA.
Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 46m
TBPN
AI pause proposals collide with enforcement and competition
The debate tests whether extreme controls on advanced AI could reduce catastrophic risk without driving development underground or surrendering technological ground.
Sep 11, 2026 · 30 min
TBPN
AI’s Blender prowess tests the meaning of general intelligence
The episode connects a practical test of AI generality with labor-market uncertainty and Tesla’s ambitious robotaxi timeline.
Sep 5, 2026 · 33 min
TBPN
AI’s capability surge meets jobs, markets, and real-world deployment
The episode tests whether rapidly improving AI is changing labor, software, investment, mobility, and infrastructure faster than institutions can adapt.
Sep 5, 2026 · 2h 20m
TBPN
AI infrastructure collides with regulation, robotics and China
The episode connects fast-moving AI capabilities to the harder questions of infrastructure, public consent, national power and technological competition.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2h 24m
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Persistent AI coworkers redraw the boundaries of knowledge work
As AI shifts from answering prompts to carrying work forward, people must decide what to delegate, what to verify, and what thinking to protect.
Aug 30, 2026 · 1h 22m
Pod Save America
Democrats test a post-resistance message in key Senate races
The episode connects Trump’s insular information environment to a broader Democratic challenge: turning opposition into an economic and electoral strategy.
Aug 21, 2026 · 1h 31m
TBPN
Meta, SpaceX and startups test AI’s commercial edge
The episode connects AI’s strategic uncertainty to cybersecurity, media economics, creative tools, and the race to commercialize new infrastructure.
Aug 10, 2026 · 1h 59m